Thin Expansion (vSphere5)

Here’s a curious one.

The max size of a thin-provisioned VMDK on a VMFS5 datastore is 2TB.

If you create a new VMDK you’re allowed to create it at 2048GB/2TB.

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However when you go to expand an existing VMDK that is less than 2TB you can only grow it in 34.05GB chunks from the GUI.

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From the command line you can expand it in one fell swoop (note that 2048g doesn’t work as you have a 2048GB-512b size limit – the GUI resizes for you)

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